Annalisa Fasolino

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the nature of these height fluctuations by means of straightforward atomistic Monte Carlo simulations based on a very accurate many-body interatomic potential for carbon and find that ripples spontaneously appear due to thermal fluctuations with a size distribution peaked around 70 \AA which is compatible with experimental findings (50-100 \AA) but not with the current understanding of flexible membranes.

TL;DR: It is found that ripples spontaneously appear owing to thermal fluctuations with a size distribution peaked around 80 A which is compatible with experimental findings and might be due to the multiplicity of chemical bonding in carbon.

TL;DR: An unusual, nonmonotonic, behavior is predicted of the lattice parameter with a minimum at T approximately 900 K and of the shear modulus with a maximum at the same temperature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a bond order potential for carbon with built-in long-range interactions, which is defined as the sum of an angular and coordination dependent short-range part accounting for the strong covalent interactions and a radial longrange part describing the weak interactions responsible, e.g., for the interplanar binding in graphite.

TL;DR: A type of cell wall–loosening protein is reported that does not share any homology with expansins but is a member of the lipid transfer proteins (LTPs), and it is hypothesized that LTP associates with hydrophobic wall compounds, causing nonhydrolytic disruption of the cell wall and subsequently facilitating wall extension.